Section No : Legislative Enactments REGISTRATION OF TEMPLE LANDSMarginal Notes1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Temple Lands Registration Ordinance.2. Power to appoint commissioners to carry the Ordinance into effect. 3. Commissioners to take oath of office. 4. Commissioner not to be purchaser of land. 5. Power to appoint clerk and other officers and to make rules for giving effect to the Ordinance. 6. Time and place of the sittings of the commissioners, how appointed and notified. Proceedings of commissioners in the investigation of claims, &c, to be with open doors. 7. Commissioners to inquire into, ascertain, and set out the boundaries of temple lands in the Kandyan provinces. 8. So soon as such public notice is given, persons claiming lands on behalf of temples to lodge with commissioners a schedule of such claims. 9. Instead of giving in a written claim, parties may appear before the commissioners . and state the same verbally. Such verbal statements are to be recorded and signed. 10. Claims to be open to the inspection of all persons interested. Proceedings if claim objected to. 11. Commissioners to decide questions of exemption from taxation, and boundaries of temple lands. 12. Instruments dated prior to 1st February, 1840, produced to the commissioners to be copied, and copies filed in District Court. No such instrument, not produced, to be afterwards received in evidence. 13. Commissioners to be guided by equity, and not bound by the strict rules of law; and may examine the parties on oath. 14. Commissioners to have power to summon witnesses. Penalty for not obeying the summons. Fine how recovered. 15. Witness not bound to travel more than ten miles. 16. Evidence to be reduced to writing and signed. Persons swearing falsely to be deemed guilty of giving false evidence. 17. Commissioners may order witnesses residing at a distance, or unable to attend, to be examined on oath by Justice of the Peace. Duties of such Justices of the Peace. 18. Commissioners may order the person in charge of any temple land to put up land marks. On failure or refusal commissioners may have them erected, and recover double the cost of erection. 19. Penalty for removing or destroying landmark. 20. Commissioners to draw up a registry of lands.